I will make this quick and simple:
Due to fate or misfortune I am not and will ever be the owner of Naruto.
Now on with the story!
Tsunade wanted to bang her head against her desk and yell at anyone who came. The piles of papers only made her fume grow. She had been sitting on her desk for hours completing the papers, but no matter how much time passed the pile never seemed to shorten. In fact, it seemed to grow more and more each time she looked at it.
Shizune felt guilty for being the one to continue adding piles as Tsunade was doing a sheet, but she had to. She knew that getting the Hokage to focus on her duties was quite difficult, so now was the chance to take advantage. Having taken all the sake Tsunade had hidden was a plus to her vile behavior and her focus.
As the Hokage, Tsunade understood the hard work that was involved and as her right hand, Shizune knew that it was her job to make sure that Tsunade completed her duties. However there was something else that was in her mind that she felt must be addressed.
"Tsunade-sama," Shizune said in the most respectable voice she had acquired, "I would like to discuss something with you."
Tsunade lay her pencil down and darted her eyes away from the paper on her desk and to Shizune. "This isn't the best time, Shizune! I have to get this done before tomorrow and I have a long way to go."
Shizune wanted to tell her that it wasn't really do tomorrow, but next week. She had lied in order to get her started. "I know, but this will only take a second."
With a big sigh Tsunade agreed to the quick conversation. Shizune doubted if it would be that quick, though.
"It's about Sakura." Shizune said waiting for Tsunade to speak and understand the problem. Seeing as she didn't open her mouth Shizune continued. "She has been acting strange lately. Not like her usual self."
"Like what? I've seen nothing strange with her." All lies Shizune thought. Sakura was like a sister to Shizune and a daughter to Tsunade so of course she must have noticed something wrong. But for some reason she wasn't admitting it.
"For example, her patients. She takes care of the children without problem, giving them great care. To women as well. But when a man steps into her office she begins shaking! She never acted like that before!"
"You're exaggerating. Sakura is fine; she probably had personal problems that day or something."
"No, I don't think so. I have been observing her for a long time and she has never done that before. Sakura has always put her personal life behind when it came to her job. This is different."
"It must be a young thing. Remember Sakura is a very emotional girl."
Shizune was shocked. Here was she explaining to Tsunade a possible problem with Sakura and yet she was shrugging it off as no big deal. For a moment she thought that it might have been her being paranoid, but that couldn't be. Out of the both of them, she wasn't the one who practically killed Naruto half to death after him and Sakura had both agreed to break up. (However Tsunade had thought that it was something that the blonde boy caused.) She was never the one to be over protected or over exaggerated it was always Tsunade.
"Do you know what's wrong with her?" Shizune asked looking at Tsunade in case she gave anything away. But she was Hokage for a reason.
"What would I know? Anyway nothing's wrong. She already came to visited me and she told me everything was fine."
Shizune decided to end the conversation seeing as it would go nowhere. She continued helping Tsunade with her papers, but always wondering what Tsunade was keeping.
Kakashi looked at the darkness around him evading his eyes from the body next to him. He wanted to understand, but couldn't. Why? How? He kept asking himself.
He listened to Yamato's every word. His idea if protection. His proposal. It all sounded ludicrous. How could he have had something with Sakura! His former student!
Nothing made sense to the white haired nin. His ally, a person he considered was his best friend betrayed him. Even the man's explanation sounded unreasonably.
Inside his thoughts he had not heard Yamato call out his name. Once he finally heard the echoes of his name he turned to face Yamato. The brown haired nin was also facing him, but both showed different expressions. While one showed betrayal, hatred, and pain the other showed lost, grief, and torture.
Kakashi didn't understand where the last emotion came into play. How did he feel tortured?
Yamato gave a heavy breath already in telling that the worst was yet to come. Kakashi couldn't believe that it still wasn't over, but continued to pay his outermost attention to the man.
"The next day we got ready. We left and there again we met Jiro and Kaito. This time we negotiated, but it was true what had been said. Jiro didn't just let anyone in his business. We talked in a room where Sakura was not present and there they told me what the test was. They..." Yamato stopped and gave another heavy breath, "they wanted Sakura and me to..."
Kakashi couldn't believe his ears! This couldn't be happening. This was unbelievable!
"They wanted me to forcefully have..." As many times as Yamato tried to say it the words wouldn't come out.
"Fuck," were the first words that came out of Kakashi, "and you let it happen!"
Yamato immediately looked at his wooden floors. He didn't have the courage to look at Kakashi anymore.
"What the fuck happened? Did you warn her?" Kakashi practically yelled.
In whispers Yamato answered, "I wasn't able to tell her anything. Kaito had taken me to a room where she was waiting. He had warned me that the room was being monitored and everything would be seen by him and Jiro. When I came in ..."
When he came in, Yamato remembered, she was sitting in the king bed that was in the middle of the room. She had been looking out the window and when she saw him she asked what had happened.
But Yamato never answered as he grabbed her by the hair to face him and give her a forceful kiss.
His hands harshly pulled down her red kimono beneath her breast. She had no bra on so they feel freely. His hands gave them a rough squeeze. He pushed her on the bed and began taking off his pants. She only lay there shocked at what he was doing. He returned to her, his mouth quickly finding her nipple, biting and sucking them. Her moans held no pleasure as they had the first time, but of pain.
He moved his hands to her panties taking them off and throwing them away. Lying on top of her, he positioned himself to get inside her. Not waiting for her to be prepared Yamato pushed his length in with full force. His movements were fast and rough as he banged her.
He didn't dare look at her face, but could already vision her tears. She kept on yelling at him to stop and even tried to push him off. But it was useless without her chakra. And that was how it continued until he ejaculated.
With that done he got up, put on his pants, and left. Her cry, however, was something that remained even after he departed the room.
"You raped her." This time it was Kakashi's voice that came in a whisper.
Yamato didn't respond. He didn't need to.
Letting his body fall back on the couch, Kakashi reheard the same words again and again. Rape. He couldn't see this happening to his Sakura. But they had and they continued to haunt her.
With a low dangerous voice Kakashi commanded Yamato to continue.
He compiled, "Jiro approved." Were his first words. "They paid me for her services for that night and then I would be called to pick her up."
"Why would you pick her up?" Kakashi asked.
"Our negotiation involved getting paid for every night she worked for his company. I would have her after the night was over."
Kakashi thought about this. It was strange that Jiro had agreed to this. He believed that Jiro would have preferred to have all of his prostitutes at watch all the time, with so much skittish about intruders. He assumed that Yamato figured this as well.
"From the inside Sakura slowly got the information we needed. Hashito's daughter was going to be sold to a wealthy man in the Sound village in about a week. After that we just had to wait for her departure from Heavenly Paradise. We ambushed the guards and took her. And then we finished the mission."
The end sounded easy enough, but this was Yamato's version. "And Sakura? Did she tell you other things that happened when she was there?" Kakashi asked raising his head of the couch to look at Yamato.
Yamato's answer, however, was useless. "She barely spoke to me anymore, unless it involved the mission. She didn't even tell me why..."
"Why what?" Kakashi quickly asked.
"Why she cried." Yamato said with a clocked voice. "I asked and asked, but she never responded, she would always tell me that she was fine and locked herself up in her room." He put both his hands over his face as his tears dropped.
His tears meant nothing to Kakashi. He has deserved this, even if it was a mission. Kakashi's hate and betrayal was so strong that he couldn't see anything else. He kept imagining what Sakura was going through and he was sure it was ten times worse.
Kakashi kept silence as Yamato cried. He felt that what was needed to be said had been already said. But there was one thing left he wanted to add. "Stay away from Sakura from now on." And with those words he left.
Yamato, after what felt like hours, stopped crying. He had burst and felt relieved. He had been holding his emotions in all this time and letting them go was bliss. But even he knew that while he felt bliss he was far from it.
His relief might have come from telling someone else about the mission or by telling the one person who he wanted to keep it from. Even now though, he felt the new troubles that were arising. The tension between him and Kakashi, Sakura's condition, and the idea of having to stay away from Sakura. Yamato realized then that what hurt him the most was the last idea. Where he couldn't see Sakura.
It had been weeks before Kakashi went to visit Sakura again. This however went unnoticed to Sakura. She seemed to have very little thoughts of anything else as her mind ran on the same things every day. Work, home, and rest. As a young konichi people expected for her to have a more lively life, but that was not true. Being the Hokage's apprentice took its toll on Sakura. Anyway even if she had time she would make herself work overtime or lock herself up.
Her actions of course were noticed by Shizune who always kept an eye on her. She would always tell the young medic to not over exhaust herself, a repetition that was never heard. The caring like sister saw the difference in the girl's way of life, but felt like she could do nothing except continue on her watch.
Sakura never showed that she knew Shizune's concern, because if she did Shizune would surely know something was off. The least Sakura wanted to do was make herself seem different. So when Kakashi came along asking when they could have their lunch she had promised, she said tonight. She hoped that this would make Shizune back down, even if it was a little, her sisterly concern.
Kakashi was also glad that their meeting was set that day. Being away from her had made him realize that Sakura needed help as soon as possible. And he would provide her help. He knew curing her would take longer than a day or week but he was fine giving up his time to his pink friend, no family member. That's what she was to him.
They had agreed that after her job she would go home and get prepared. Then she would go to get him. It irked Kakashi that it was Sakura who would be escorting him and not the other way around. But no matter how he retaliated, she would not summit.
Kakashi waited in his lonely apartment for the awaited visitor he was expecting. Having had no assignments that day he taken a shower earlier than usual and put on his uniform except for the green vest he would always wear. The next hours of the day were occupied with what he would say to Sakura. He was sure that he couldn't be blunt about that topic, especially since he wasn't supposed to know. He also figured that subtlety asking about the mission would be useless. So he went with his best bet. Slowly getting Sakura to trust him and open up to him.
Kakashi figured that trust would be easy. Having had spent the most time with her gave him a heads up with how to act around her. For her to open up about the mission was the difficult part. Even he didn't speak about missions that had ruined his life, even after many years. he knew that this would be no different for her. This thought, however, didn't tear Kakashi's plan. He felt that he could do this. He would help her one way or another.
At last there was a knock at the door. Kakashi quickly stood up and opened it. There was Sakura wearing her usual red shirt and black skirt with her black shorts underneath. Her ninja gear, however, were nowhere to be seen.
"Hello Kakashi-sensei. Ready to go." She asked.
The said man nodded and walked out if his apartment. Sakura waited for him to lock his door and put his keys in one of his many pockets before walking. Kakashi followed. "Where would you like to?" She asked.
"Anywhere is fine."
Sakura thought about where anywhere could be. She had scheduled the get together herself but had no idea where to go. She knew that it couldn't be somewhere to expensive due to her thin wallet. But she wasn't going to go cheap on her sensei either.
A restaurant that was economical she thought. That had very few people since she knew Kakashi wasn't fond of people and neither was she at the moment. Thinking over her options she agreed on her best choice. A small restaurant that was ten to fifteen minutes from where they were standing.
"Come on." Sakura told him walking a little bit faster. Kakashi did the same wondering exactly where she was taking him.
His wonderment left him when he saw the outside of the restaurant. The place looked in ruins, having had a sign dangling sideways reading Fine Dine, a sign that was completely ironic to the place itself. The windows were covered up with white sheets of paper giving no insight of what was inside. The dangling lights on top of the entrance door flickered as they approached. He heard something crack at the bottom of his feet and noticed a broken pot. As he eyed the floor further he saw various pots beside the walls of the restaurant containing flowers that were dead or close to it.
Kakashi didn't know if this was a prank or if Sakura just couldn't afford a meal for two. He felt bad for having made her kept her promise. He wanted to back out and tell her that he would pay again being her former sensei and all, but before he could do such a thing he heard a bell ring as the door in front of him opened. It was Sakura who had opened the door and waiting for him to enter.
He slowly walked in and was prepared to talk her out of her invitation when he noticed the inside.
The inside was the completely opposite from the outside. The walls were painted a nice midnight blue color with decorations of bright stars and grey white clouds plastered all over the walls. The decorations were no over exaggerated so it still gave a simple vibe to the place. In the center of the ceiling was a large bright moon that was probably giving most of the lighting. Even with the couple of lights that shined the room it was well lighted giving a view that was perfect to the eye.
"Sakura Haruno, what a pleasure to see you here." An elderly woman said with sheer happiness in her voice.
"Hello Hana." Sakura relied "How have you been?"
"I've been great, thanks to you." Sakura gave a smile to the lady as she picked up two menus from the counter behind her and lead them to a table beside one of the covered windows. Now Kakashi understood the reason for the covered windows. While the sheets reflected white from the outside it had the same blue color as the rest of the place with a few stars here and there. Apparently the theme of the place was the night.
Hana let them sit, laying the menus on the table, and taking a small pad with a pen out ready to write. "Let's start off with drinks, shall we?"
Sakura was the first to answer with coffee and then Kakashi, ordering the same thing. From there Hana left for their drinks.
"What do you think of the place?" Sakura asked truly curios about his opinion.
"Well you surely surprised me on this one." He answered.
She gave a small laugh at his answer. "What do you mean?" She asked innocently.
"At first I thought you brought me here as a game or that it was all you could afford. I never thought that it looked like this." Kakashi said lifting his hands to indicate his this.
She was amused, Kakashi could tell. It was rare for him to be surprised or to show it to any of his students. He was sure she was basking in this moment. "Hana told me about this place after I healed her. She had told me it was a beautiful place and to come and visit. I did and like you was shocked at the outside, but the inside took my breath away. I had asked her why such a place like this had a dump as an entrance. She explained to me that things shouldn't be judged by their covers and her restaurant would follow suit. She believed if people couldn't see the true worth of her restaurant that they didn't have the right to dine here."
"Then I guess I shouldn't be here." Kakashi said. Sakura nodded but replied that since she had told him the moral of the restaurant to never make the mistake again.
Hana soon came with their drinks asking if they were ready to order. Sakura nodded, but Kakashi just eyed her confused. He was sure that he didn't know what to order, he hadn't even looked at the menu. Sakura didn't seem to care and grabbed his menu piling it on top of hers and handing it to Hana. She said a dish that Kakashi never heard of and with that Hana left.
"Since when have you known my preferences in food?" Kakashi asked lifting one of his eyebrows.
"I don't. It's what I always order when I come here. Anyway I don't want you to get something expensive now do I?" She said giving him a smirk.
Kakashi crested his only visible eye showing his amusement to her response. "So, how have you been?" He asked.
"It's been boring with work and everything." Her reply gave more information than what she was giving away.
"It seems like you overwork yourself too much. You should give yourself time have fun and be with your friends."
"Who said I don't have fun and spend time with my friends?" Clearly annoyed by his teaching over her life.
"Nobody needs to tell me, I see it." Kakashi always saw it when she walked around late at night after getting out of work when she should have been sleeping. He knew that medics had emergencies to attend to, but he doubted that they happened every night. Even on her days off he wouldn't see her roaming around the village or hanging out with friends.
Sakura gave a big sigh at her teacher's response. "You need to stop worrying, I'm fine. I'm here with you aren't I?"
"Yes you are, but that wasn't for your enjoyment. Wasn't it more for Shizune's concern." Kakashi stated.
These were the times when she wished her teacher wasn't so observant at his surroundings. "Maybe."
He stared at her with his piercing eye that he would give team 7 when they had done mischief. "Yes." She confessed. "She also believes that I'm overworking myself. But she should know that it's my sacrifice to become better."
"I truly believe that working all day won't make you become a better konichi. I also believe that it's not the reason for your recent shut down to the world."
Sakura looked at Kakashi and his cool composure, not knowing what to say she nodded at him, affirming his words. She waited for him to ask what was wrong, but he didn't and she knew he wouldn't. She knew that he would wait for her to open up to him when she was ready and she was glad. Kakashi was one of the only people she had let inside since the mission and she was very grateful that he was with her right now, waiting for her to open up to him. She somehow knew she would, but not now.
Then came Hana, putting both plates on the tables and saying, "Enjoy your meal," before leaving them alone again.
There is chapter 6! It makes me happy to be done with this chapter, now I have to get started on the next one =)
Thanks to all the people who are reading this story (I honestly thought no one would read this, so having people is kind of a shock for me). Anyways please review, it helps makes the procedure faster, any comments will do good or bad, I can take them =]. If you guys have any questions I'll answer them the best I can.
Be back with the next chapter soon!
-Zero